Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.

Books are dead men talking.

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?