The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

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 hope is that laying out what we understand about essential differences in the minds of men and women may lead to grater acceptance and respect of difference.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.