“We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

World history is a court of judgment.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.

Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

A friend told me ‘I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

You have a destiny to fulfill. There’s a calling on your life, an assignment that only you can accomplish.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.