Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

All heiresses are beautiful.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

Behind the cross is the devil.

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.