This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

People fear what they do not understand.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Remember that sometimes you find your destiny in the places you least expect it.

We seize functioning as humans when we totally depend on miracles.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

To teach is to delight.

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!