If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.