Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.