Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

After four knee surgeries and hundreds of shots injected into my knee weekly to alleviate swelling and pain, my body is begging me to stop the pounding.

When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.