To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

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.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

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

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

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

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.