Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.