If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.

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.

We think when there is a stimulation to create thoughts in our minds.

Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.

I was up all night just to talk to myself about you.

Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.