No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."]

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves my unexploited resources perhaps my future.

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.