Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

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.

Most people don't know what they want. Some people kind of know what they want. Successful people know what they want and don't take no for an answer.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.

I loved theater growing up, and my mom always took us to the touring productions that would come through town. We would go to Chicago all the time and see shows. I loved it.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.

No" is always an easier stand than "Yes.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?