There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Not all paths offer a vista. But every path offers a lesson.

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.

Love makes me feel vulnerable.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.