When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.