What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

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I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.