The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.