Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

I feel like I failed, " I said. "Don't beat yourself up, " Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?