In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.