The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.