My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

I just wanna drink chocolate milk with my lovely!

You have to believe in your dreams, to reach out for your dreams.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.