The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

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.

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.