It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.

I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.

I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.

When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You're not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.