Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Life is nothing but a clump of mud

When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

Don't ask whether it's going to be easy. Ask whether it's going to be worth it.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

People are inspired to do remarkable things to find and be with the one they love.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?