Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.

When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.