In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

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.

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.