An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

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.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

I walk in the realm of the supernatural.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

There is no other reality than nature.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.