Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.