Man's the bad child of the universe

Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

Free men set themselves free.

Would you end war? Create great Peace.

A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right.

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.