The day of individual happiness has passed

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.