Evenings and mornings represent —the gates— to your inner universe. Taking care of how you enter and exit these —gates— is your primary responsibility; do not give away this power. Once you master it, life will never be the same again.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators through vertical cracks around you. Jolting past you in every bus. Your masters, Gail Wynand. There is a net - longer than the cables that coil through the walls of this city, larger than the mesh of pipes that carry water, gas and refuse - there is another hidden net around you; it is strapped to you, and the wires lead to every hand in the city. They jerked the wires and you moved. You were a ruler of men. You held a leash. A leash is only a rope with a noose at both ends.

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.(Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant.

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.

Man can be a master of his mind.

With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.

I must serve the Great Master, God.

Many men but one Master.

One mind, One master.

What I must know, only the Master teaches!

God is our great Master.

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.