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

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

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.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.

All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.

I don’t operate on fear, and I don’t let fear control me.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies

You have to be secure with the ball. You can’t lose it.

Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.

An army marches on its stomach.