Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.