What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.