“The main thing is to make history, not to write it” 

Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.

First you learn humility, then you experience glory.

Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it. 

“It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.” 

“The revolution does not need historians.” 

“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.” 

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"You have been the last dream of my soul."

"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."

“Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. “

“History is the study of the world’s crime.”

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

“Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love. All that love I gave didn’t mean nothing when it came to fear.”