The combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

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

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

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

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.