“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.”

For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”

What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.