Subtle difference between a hero and an opportunist is not where you stand, but its timing. Standing up against injustice when it suits is convenience, not heroism

History most grandiose accomplishments can have the most trivial origin

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them

Prayer can guarantee anyone's success but never someone's failure

It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live

Past success secures future failure if we continue to bask in its glow for too long

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

Surprise was not when i thanked my parents. Surprise came when they said, "What for"?

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

Your ambition is the most reliable alarm clock.

All Prophets were leaders, should all leaders be Prophets

To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.