We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

We never forget those who make us blush.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

We weaken what we exaggerate.

If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation.

Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy.

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

I think that the big age problem in the job market today is really on the part of employers and that they don't seem to be calculating the cost of age discrimination to them when they practice it.

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?