...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

To choose light is to reject darkness.

I love really long books because it feels like you are diving into a pool for a very long time.:)

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I do try to live a normal life.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.