We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.

When they slam a door on your face, it's life, adding another 110 lb plate to your bar and telling you: "Let's see how strong you are".

The miracle centered gospel breeds up a mentality of people that think they could go through life without doing their best.

The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.