It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Medicine for the soul.

Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.

How do you know that past exist?

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.