“Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.”

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.

Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.

A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.

Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.

Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.

an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business.

You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.

Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.