Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.
Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.
If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become – an individual, a Master.
Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.
Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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.
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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.
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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.
Become who you are by learning who you are.