"O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

"Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

"The experience of this sweet life.L'esperienza de questa dolce vita."

"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others."

"Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement."

"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."

"Don't take life so serious--it ain't nohows permanent."