If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

We can't have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Sufism is about connecting with the intuitive parts of ourselves so that we can attune to the highest vibration in the universe, which is pure love. It's about joining together in the mystical heart.

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.