Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Even coal shimmers in the light

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

There is no treasure like the human heart.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

Be yourself and look outside of yourself.

Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.