The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

The greatest victory is defeat.

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.

Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes

You don't have the same experiences as all of your friends, hopefully. Instead, you meet people and something clicks.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.