No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

No great advance has ever been made in science politics or religion without controversy.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.