The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
"You have to work hard to get to the top, but you have to work even harder to stay there."
Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.