The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

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.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

The more uncomfortable I feel, that's where I know the magic is.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.