Speech is always bolder than action.

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.

So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It's all just luck.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape