Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

You mind is well-spring of life.

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone’s bones.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.