It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Live in the present, but live for the future.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.