How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1, 200, 1, 500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.