I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

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.

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.