The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.