Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

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.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Always look within, to seek out the love and joy residing inside of you and then look to find your dark shadows falling behind you disappear.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.