Jedediah Leland

"Fear is the only honest emotion we possess."

"Power is the final arbiter of all disputes."

"Money is the language all men understand."

"Health is the greatest wealth, yet the least appreciated."

"Adventure is the pursuit of the reckless."

"Imagination allows us to escape our prisons."

"Technology progresses while humanity stagnates."

"History teaches us nothing, yet we are condemned to repeat it."

"Philosophy is the luxury of the privileged."

"Literature captures the fleeting essence of truth."

"Politics corrupts even the most noble aspirations."

"War reveals the beast beneath our civilized facade."

"I can remember everything. That's my curse."

"We were in the same class in school. I was the class president. He was the boy who got the grades."

"Charlie Kane wanted to be everything to everybody."

"A man's destiny is his own unless he's afraid to take it."

"Power without purpose is merely tyranny."

"I've known a lot of people in this world. None of them were happy."

"The truth is like a stone - it can wound or it can build."

"Youth promises what age can rarely deliver."

"A friendship that dies was never truly alive."

"We all have our Rosebud, don't we?"

"Success is easy to achieve; happiness is the real conquest."

"A man who loses himself in ambition finds nothing but an empty throne."

"I learned early that wealth could buy almost anything except contentment."

"The measure of a man is not his accumulations but his principles."

"Time is the only honest accountant of our lives."

"Love cannot be manufactured in a printing press."

"A newspaper can tell facts, but only a soul can tell truth."

"Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's doing what's right despite it."