“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”