The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.

Great times are great softeners

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.