Life is a dream and death an awakening.

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest.

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected.

I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

Hunger is good discipline.

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

No two men are alike, and both of them are happy for it.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.