We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.