I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.