Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you’ve focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.

The path of destiny is not always paved smooth with gold.

The questions we don’t ask become the puzzles we don’t solve.

It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike;...

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

What we don’t often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we...

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs...

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.

Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer’s arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary.

Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.

Never judge a woman by her age.

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

Time doesn’t always heal all wounds.

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.

When all is said and done, everyone should be able to look back on their life and know that they made it exactly as they wanted it to be.

The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you’re out doing what you love to do. Only...

Significant change requires significant sacrifice.

We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most...

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

Sometimes it’s best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

Awareness is not a prerequisite for change.

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep...

You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn’t you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.

Your biggest dreams can become reality, not by brute-forcing the end-goal, but breaking it down into smaller, more manageable parts. If your goal takes years, breaking it down into months and days will let you...

Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it....

Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm...

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its...

Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn’t just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for...

Our destinations are Booleans – we reach them or we don’t – but our journeys are spectrums, because there are so many paths we can take to our destination that make getting there that much...

Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.

Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem...

All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren’t being deceived into the possibilities yet.

Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.

If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

The power to give everything or take it all away is the inborn power contained in every confident woman’s grasp – the only way for a man to regain that power, is to keep her...

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.

We stay the same as we’ve always been, keeping to the path we’ve walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only...

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others – status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present...