...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Even paranoid people have enemies.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.