Heroes can get surprise assistance, but it's best for the hero to be the one to perform the decisive action; to deliver the death blow to fear or the Shadow; to be active rather than passive, at this of all times.

The meaning (or thinking) we give an event is what determines how we ultimately feel about it.

Investing is one of the only fields that offers daily opportunities for extreme rewards. People believe in financial quackery in a way they never would for, say, weather quackery because the rewards for correctly predicting what the stock market will do next week are in a different universe than the rewards for predicting whether it will be sunny or rainy next week.

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.

No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.

This is the deal we make with our leaders. We in the group will work hard to see their vision become a reality and they will offer us protection along the way.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Ask about specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future.

We're going to stimulate some action, We're gonna get some satisfaction. We're gonna find out what it is all about, After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out.

Think of psychedelics as temporarily flattening the snow. The deeply worn trails disappear, and suddenly the sled can go in other directions, exploring new landscapes and, literally, creating new pathways.