When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

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.

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.

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.

There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.