In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

War is over ... If you want it.

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food.