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.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

You have limited time on this planet. Convert each moment into Perl by spreading happiness. Giving is much more fulfilling than taking.

As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

What I would be quite wise to remember is that ‘pieces’ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Stephen Colbert is also then turned into news.

B students work for C students - A students teach.