Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.