Life is a race; desire the goal.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime