Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

Action creates/a taste/for itself.

The spirit of determination is the soul set on fire.

who will love you? who will fight? and who will fall far behind?

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.