The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!

Desegregation is a joke.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.