My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.

There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.

My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee

Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.

Facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.

There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.