I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

I see (humor) in the smallest things.

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?