Sometimes, failure uppercuts those who look down on other people.

Sometimes, you need to downgrade your dreams to upgrade your reality.

One of the happiest moments in a father's life is when his children treat him like a brother.

Sometimes, when you attempt to run away from your true calling, all roads will conspire to lead you back to where you came from.

Some people succeed not because they have wealth and education, but because they have firm focus.

Follow your passion, but never forget your responsibilities.

I'd rather be an unhappy principled man than a happy person with a lax conscience.

The existence of 'forever' depends on how you treat 'now'.

The best way to cleanse the world from monsters is by not becoming one.

Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.

Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.