My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

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 human body is the best work of art.

Xs and OsLove is a gameof tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting, for the next x or o.

What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

When I start thinking, all is lost.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.