Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

The public trusts big data way too much.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

Fear manifested invites danger.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.