All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Come and sip from the cup of destruction.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

There is no good in anything until it is finished.

Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

All who are born are always dying.

Not new but so true:"It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.

The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.

Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.