The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

If you never love you never hurtIf you never hurt you've never lived.Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")

Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

And so, now, it is almost midnight of the first day, and I have broken my resolution to go to bedearly - postponing sleep, and thereby the inevitable waking up in tomorrow. Another device of escape.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.