Who would bring light must endure burning.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

Self-creation is the highest art.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

I was on the pom pom team, I was on the cheerleading team, I sang. I played football with the guys 'cause I didn't know how to play double dutch. Anything to get out the house.

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.

I'm still hibernating so I get really frustrated with other people's goals and just stop.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

Now that Hillary Clinton is officially running for President I am officially not going to vote for her. It's official.