Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.