One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine.

Fear ends where love begins.

An ounce of love can overcome a mountain of fear.

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

primitive religions are based entirely on fear

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.