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

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Longing performs all things

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

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.

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.