In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!

There's a big difference between seeing an opportunity and seizing an opportunity

Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.