In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

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.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Literature is analysis after the event.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off.