“Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.”

“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.”

“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or almost anywhere else.”

“If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.”

“Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.”

“He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.”

“In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.”

“What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.”

“I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.”

“Whenever man does not interfere, monogamy seems to be the general order of Nature with all higher organisms.”