Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

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.

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

When Donald Trump becomes president, he'll fly on a jumbo jet rebadged Hair Force One. It will be oversized to contain his massive ego, and will have all the latest and greatest blowdryer technology.

We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else.