Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.