For kings the world is very simplified. All men are subjects.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

All you need is love.

In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

The good citizen is the one who can not tolerate in his country a power that pretends to be superior to the laws.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

No man should write unless he is convinced that he is in possession of the truth and another man is in error.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

I often marvel that the story is so heavy, because much of it must be pure invention.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.