Never judge a woman by her age.

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.

This is what I know

All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money.

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.