Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

A person preaches well that lives well.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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

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.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

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

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

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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?