All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

If you make peace without defense power, then you should be really ready to be ruled.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrowing the regime.