A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

An idea is salvation by imagination

His modesty amounts to deformity.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

What is to give light must endure burning.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Nothing is black or white.