The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Courage is grace under pressure.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

A lie never lives to be old.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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