Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

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.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self