To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance

We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.