Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage

September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts!

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

I don't believe in atheists.