When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Happiness is a habit, it’s more than fleeting, more than a disintegrating lozenge.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.