Patience is the art of hoping.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.

It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it’s eminently possible.

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.