He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Sunlight is painting.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.