Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way we are.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

We can not become what we need to by remaining what we are.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1000 per cent return on energy.

Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they’re meant to be in your life, they’ll catch up.

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.