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

We're close friends [with Brandy Burre]. We're neighbors. I actually lived two houses over from her for a while and then we were traveling one day and she was looking at the house we currently live in - which was between us - and she's like, "You guys should move here! It's bigger and better!"

If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

It's okay to be lost in college.

Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.