“The river of life flows independently of one’s preferences.  Whether you flow, float, swim or sink, it’s your personal choice.”

“The wheel of time churns relentlessly.  Moments gone will never come back.  So act wisely and mindfully in the present.”

“The fist step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you’ll be no one, nowhere - like Hadrian, like Augustus.

The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.”        

“It was not in his nature to pass up any opportunity, especially if it might give him and edge, and put his life in danger.”

But how often do you let opportunities pass by?  When an opportunity is presented, do you notice?  Do you know what an opportunity looks like?  Opportunities beget action.  Action begets results.  That is how goals are achieved.              

When people cling to outdated plans and remain inflexible to changing circumstances, the results might just be 30 million casualties, the violent end of 3 empires and tragic impacts to a world order we’re still living with to this day.  

Highly trained, motivated teams with a total trust in one another and shared purpose can literally save the world.

Consistency. Consistency. Consistency. Just be consistent about the right thing. Are you working to become a better person each day or eating a bag of potato chips on the couch each day?

“Our conception of diversity is not just incomplete but radically defective.”

There are two types of games: finite games and infinite games. Make sure you are playing the right one.

If the focus of your life is yourself, the result of your dying will be the indifference of others.

“…we laugh at people who still use Windows 95, yet we cling to opinions that we formed in 1995.”