"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."

"I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken a€” the choosing was not. Just keep moving on..."

"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes and completes them by what is deepest in themselves."

"That's why Knowledge of Self is like life after death, Apply it to your life, and let destiny manifest."

"The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done."

"...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."

"If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes."

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

"Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination."