Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.

We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

I like playing with a good crowd.