To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.

The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

Don't forget Yemen, where there are also extremist elements, as we saw recently.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.