People stop thinking when they cease to read.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

The paradox of life

Is it possible to find your future in the past?

Life's hard, Love's harder.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

Diversity is a great force towards creativity.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.

I came to understand that the words executive and corporate never belong next to the word chef.