"He is great who confers the most benefits."

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience."

"To think is to act."

"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well."

"Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow."

"Life has no rehearsals, only performances."

"Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better."

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

"I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away."

"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."