Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The salvation of the species, lies in knowing the Self – it lies in contributing to the wellbeing of the Selves of others.

Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.

You have to work for what you want.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

I got a fascination with food.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.