Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

Be the star in someone's sky. Love with light from the high.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.