Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

I actually love actors.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy