A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The present is never a happy state to any being