You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Give up trying to make me give up

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Freedom lies in being bold.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

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

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.