A general must be a charlatan.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

She's as common as pig tracks. Just her being here lowers the tone of the entire city.

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.