Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports. . . . When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.
A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.
The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.