A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.