You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.

Fight for what you want. Never allow anything to distract you.

A small metal marble pinballs within my chest, banging and clanging against all the routes inside me.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering