If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

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.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Nothing comes from nothing

If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

Eyes like streams of melting snow,” she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.