Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.