The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

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.

Living is not the sole purpose of life—loving is.

Strange how this war was making them all Americans.

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.