There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet