Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Gratitude is a way of creativity.

The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

The strong smells I remember are all floral. There's nothing like a farm rose to take you back to the mountains and the meadows. I'm a mountain girl, a meadow girl, so I feel very close to that.

Will you do me the honor of being my wife?

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.