“The human tongue is a beast that few can master.”
“Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.”
“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action.”
“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
“No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.”
“The greatest mistake of the past centuries in morality has been to disconnect it from the world of power.”
“Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.”
“Understanding your own mind, knowing your own motivations, is not an optional exercise—it is the most essential thing you can do.”
“Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self-worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.”
“The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. It drains your strength and diverts you from facing the world.”
“Mastery is not a question of genetics or luck, but rather of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.”
“Before anything, an apprentice seeks an understanding of the field in all its dimensions, and so is open to all knowledge, all feedback, all criticism.”
“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.”
“Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.”
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself.”
“You are an actor in a drama that has been written by the gods. Your role is to play it as if it were real, to act with all your might as if you were experiencing it, and at the same time to understand that it is of no real importance.”
“People around us, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. We need to take advantage of this by making our ideas appeal to their emotions. Their ideas are in constant change; we need to take advantage of that wonderful fact.”
“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.”
“In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them—those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.”