Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

May the Lord increase your strength.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!

Don't be like me. Look at me: monogamous, in shape, no debt, sober... I'm dead inside.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.