Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

I don't want to wake up and find out it was all a dream.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.