Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

My mother loved people and she loved conversation, and she loved to engage with people. She was a really fantastic person. You would've really liked her.

One must consider the final result

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.