It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

History is written by the winners.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Come to me! Let me take you to a real world of fictions!

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

If we don't want the companies to cheat on us, we shouldn't be cheating on them.

He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over.