Art does not imitate, but interpret.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

Identity is the role you chose to play in the story of the Universe.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.