You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor

And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.

You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.

The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.