Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]

Fear created gods; audacity created kings.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books

The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.