At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

What has Ingeld to do with Christ?

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

Man thinks, God directs.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

I never ever took my career seriously.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.