Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

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.

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

I'm all alone, fuming at myself, waving a great flagof failure.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

This loss has left me truly heartbroken. Robin Williams was one of the brightest, most loving & wonderful people I've ever been blessed to know. I'll miss him more than I can ever express in words.