The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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.

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.