Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.

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.

Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.