Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

What was it? What could it--His last thought was surprise.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Every scent is the sun's scent.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.

Confront your fears list them get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.