All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

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

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

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

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Dare to risk public criticism.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.