Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.