Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

There's more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.

Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt." "Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. "I hate wonder bread," Jason said. Together, they charged.

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.