“Before you can act you must choose. Before you can choose you must know. Before you can know you must feel. And before you can feel you must be trained.”

“Fathom your motivation so that you understand what you are prepared to do and why.”

“We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.”

“Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered throug...”

“Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.”

“These mental and physical components of self belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the personal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.”

“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”

“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ”

“Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.”

“Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.”

“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shado...”

“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are itwe become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close ...”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”