“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.”

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

Character is destiny.

Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.

Nothing endures but change.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

A man’s character is his fate.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

There is nothing permanent except change.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Silence, healing.

The sun is new each day.

The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

Elvis is dead and I don’t feel so good for myself.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who’s trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it’s something I would love to do.

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.