"We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around."

"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."

"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."

"Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy."

"You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up."

"As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"The price of ability does not depend on merit, but on supply and demand."

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."

"Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that ."

"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."

"It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all."

"Your library is your paradise."

"You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution."

"Words are not brains, you know."

"And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know."

"Who everywhere is free from all ties, who neither rejoices nor sorrows if fortune is good or ill, his is a serene wisdom. Intro to Part 3, Chapter 1. Credit was given to The Bhagavad Gita."

"The key statistic is still to get to the foul line."

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."

"There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance."

"If you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion."

"In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures."

"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth."

"To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability."