To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Who is this repulsive dwarf?

The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.