The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.

It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.

If I didn't think you were the devil, I'd say you'd be able to seduce even him.

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

People alive are better than people not alive.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.