Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Imitate the traits of your creator

In order to achieve anything, you must be brave enough to fail.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.