Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Religion is no more national than conscience.

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

You can't really dust for vomit.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.