Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.