It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

No one gets left behind, you know that.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.