Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.