One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

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

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

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

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.