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

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.

Always do what is right not what is convenient. This will reflect your love and kindness for humanity.

I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.

Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say?

Often pain is not real but just a perception.

The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!