Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

If God wanted women to be treated equally to men, he'd have given them penises.