Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.

I live or die by how well I act.