What's good for me is certainly not good for other people.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.