To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.