Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Our sufferings produce strength of spirit.

A race cannot be purified from without.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.