Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

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.

Life’s struggles are necessary for growth.

Sometimes that’s all it takes. Just one person to turn everything on its head. Remind you of the person you were.

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

The mighty hopes that make us men.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.