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

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Once you label me you negate me.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

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.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.