Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.

Life is short as breathing!Forget Yesterday, Focus today to enjoy tomorrow!"The purpose of life is to live it, not destroy it.

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

Life itself is your proper meal.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.