When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

No matter how long you live, die young.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.