...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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.

Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said.

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.