I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.

An inch to a man’s heart is a mile to his wallet.

Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.

The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.