In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

To achieve peace, we needed to have a war to start with.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.