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.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

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

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.