The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

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.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

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

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.