Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521

We've got a lot of the meal left to go. Should we move on from the turkey?

Whether they're glad or mortified to have said whatever, Paul Fein wasn't going to let such good quotes get away from us.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?