All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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

The day of individual happiness has passed

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

That which costs little is less valued.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Common sense is not so common.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.