We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery.

If we all realized that we have limited time on Earth then we would not spend our time hating each other.

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.