We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

A man of logic is a man of sin.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

It is rarely possible to learn yourself fully.

It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.