The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.