Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.