As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The day of individual happiness has passed

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

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

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

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

Effective action is always unjust.