Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

I feel like the world has just become a polyester suit that's smoldering, melting, and at some point we have to figure out how to extinguish it.

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.