Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power