A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

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.

Look beneath the surface

May the peace of God be with all people.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.