What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.