Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

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.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Clone ourselves through teaching others.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.