“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets”

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool’s dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible

There is a joy in danger.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.

Imagination governs the world.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Fear not the devil’s darkness which you thought of as moonlight, Fear not, the waves knotted within your heart, which crashes onto your eyes waterline, there? Yes there! In that illusion exists you.

Despite the fear, we have to choose to jump or be forced to live with regret.

I have feared change for so long, but the horizon changes all the time and there is still so much beauty under different skies.

How many virtuous souls do you think maybe a victim of being treated unfairly, all because of that fear of loneliness?

His fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.

It’s not the pain that bothers. But the fear of being in the same pain forever.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.