Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

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.

When I can’t find my way, I pray to God to show me the way. And then, He creates the right pathways.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.