“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

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

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.”

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”

“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”

“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.”

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”

“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”