The most important choice we can make is to control our thoughts.
“The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.”
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Reflections
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Reflections
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”
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