We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

Our worship as believers cannot be accepted we honor others

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.

Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's.

Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.