To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.

Give your choice a chance

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.