By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

Only a fool would make the bed every day.

Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.