I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

The human mind has a primordial affinity towards ideas of miracles and mysticism, especially, in times of weakness.

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.

When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.

The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Denise Donatelli is a musician’s singer!