To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.