The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,

Will Power is The Key AndDriver of Your Life Journey

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn’t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?