MikeYin’s most recent Quotables

It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

And there are men who embrace destiny and do not show their fear. These are the men who change the world.

Life is filled with multiple-choice questions...you are presented with choices A, B, C, and D. The choices themselves may vary, but there will always be one that says "None of the Above" and one that says "All of the Above."

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me.

Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or the admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

All ye who enter here, abandon hope.

"We"... is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the srong, by which fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

I am. I think. I will.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Come! We shall transform the world by our discoveries.

Genius lives on. All else is mortal.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

Things that are perceived as real are real in their consequences.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Man, seek no further the author of evil; the author is yourself.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, so is a lot.