The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

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.

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

Everyone is so afraid of making themselves look bad and of judgement.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person

If you see something, say something.