Life is a dream in which you are the dreamer as well as the dreamed.

Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something.

Leadership is the art of influencing people to execute your strategic thinking

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

Ever since I turned 22, I've grown weaker. I think I'm going to die after riding a slide once.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.