The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.