Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.