Men are ruled by toys.

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.

The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.