One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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.

God's given me a fierce passion for teaching girl's my age and younger, maybe even older, about purity, and the fact that it is not a physical thing but in fact that of the heart.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.

People will be able to judge for themselves.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.