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.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.