When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

I was a normal American nerd.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

My characters come from a good place.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.