Everything can be achieved through gradual steps – one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is.

— A.J. Darkholme

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

— A.J. Darkholme

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

— A.J. Darkholme

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

— A.J. Darkholme

Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.

— A.J. Darkholme

Gaining satisfaction through accomplishments is and will always be a slippery slope, because there will come a time when you realize you have accomplished all that is within your power to accomplish in the realm of good, and will have nowhere else to turn but to the realms of greed and power lust to find the satisfaction you crave.

— A.J. Darkholme

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.

— A.J. Darkholme

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.

— A.J. Darkholme

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

— A.J. Darkholme

If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.

— A.J. Darkholme