Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.

What you do is your choice. You can make good or bad choices, but there will never be any right or wrong to who you are.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

I think I am an adult.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.