"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible."

"Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints."

"The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment."

"If you talk enough, you don't feel you have to _do_ anything."

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death."

"Feeding the starving poor only increases their number."

"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it."

"Don't say yes until I finish talking."

"In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world."

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

"Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."