And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.