Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

I no longer believe in love, " she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.

That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.

Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?