The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Effective action is always unjust.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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.