No social stability without individual stability.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little.

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? - Sweet. Cute. Funny. - That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.