O God, how lovely still is life!

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

I'm the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.