Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.

If you believe our cause so hopeless, why join us?""Because you offered something I had forgotten could be offered, a choice. And I choose to die free.

I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

Only in war does the madman become sane.

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother, " Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.

It's a rare man who can guard against beauty.

The price of stability is unpreparedness.

Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.

Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened wasn't wrong or didn't matter. If it wasn't wrong or didn't hurt, there wouldn't be anything to forgive.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.