Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

Why are people so unkind?

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.

Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.

My mind has changed. My strength has not.

I didn't come to play. I came to win.

There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.

She may have been the one whose name meant music, but his sounded like it. Saying it made her want to sing it, to lean out a window and call him home. To whisper it in the dark.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

Fathers are no longer men, most are only boys who pretend.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Life's biggest rewards come from the biggest challenges

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.