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

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

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

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

A lie never lives to be old.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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.

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

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.