A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.