When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life.

It's funny how the closer you get to God, the more you realize how far you are from Him.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.