Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

I would love to slap you right now, but I’m currently wielding a nine pound ball and I’m afraid that would be called murder.

Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

The dance industry is flogging a dead house.