"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"An idea meritocracy is a system that brings together smart people and smart concepts."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."

"Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts."

"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."