Emerson Pugh

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

You have to name it to claim it.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.