A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

If someone angers you, they control you.