When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.