Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

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.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

Nothing is given to you.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

I think it comes in cycles for Brandy [Burre] and for many women. You want to take care of your home, making it as good as possible for your kids and for yourself, and then eventually you feel trapped and you want to break out of that. You want to be someone else and you want the world to look at you as something else. Eventually, you come back again. The cycles are very much a part of her life.