Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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

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.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

A lie never lives to be old.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

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

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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.

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