The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.