Inspirational Sayings

A good general does not fight with his troops, but with his strategy. A good king does not govern with his strength, but with his virtue.

If music be the food of love, play on.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

I don't believe in the existence of a single human being who is not a rascal.

Do not imagine that when you have conquered these lands you will keep them. You will have to leave them to others, as others left them to you.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us.

Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When I sleep, I am a stone in the ground.

I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am not a woman but a man, for I can think, I can write, I can be a thousand things.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Write drunk, edit sober.

I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I'm writing for black people, in the same way that Tolstoy was writing for Russians, not for a little white island in the Caribbean.

I’m not a writer who writes. I’m a writer who reads.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.