Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.