We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Once you label me you negate me.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.