The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

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.

I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.

So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

But instead of the end, I’m pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way.

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.