The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before you can do something you must first be something.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.