Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Imagine the feeling of catching yourself loving yourself without trying. It's like catching a sunset out of the corner of your eye. It will stop you.

Not me, ” you think.

Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

I take my craft very seriously.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?