Everything is personal.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

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

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

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.