"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability."

"... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ..."

"Can I ever know you Or you know me?"

"I don't want any 'yes-men' around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."

"Come out into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God."