Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.