Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

Work for your own soul's sake.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig, " Mangiz fumed."Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets.