Good council has no price.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.

There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.