My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

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 never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a #‎ God who is a #‎ Creator not a #‎ Duplicator .

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?

Yesterday morning Facebook was temporarily offline, leaving millions of workers unable to do anything except their jobs.

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.