In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

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.

We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together!

Mourn with those who are sorrowful.Be happy with those who are joyful.

Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.

I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white, " until later their true colors come out.

The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.