These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place.

When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.