Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.