People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

You are far more than a biomass

Your skin has a memory.In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results of how it was treated today.So treat it kindly and with respect.

There is no such thing as standing still

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.