A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged.

Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.