A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.

Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.

Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

Light. Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can't have images.