"A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind."

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

“When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.”

“Free people will set the course of history.”

“Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.”

“I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.229, DoctorZed Publishing

“In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul”

“As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.”

“Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.”

Source : Quoted by Z. Chafee Jr. in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955.