Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

I’ve been living on the edge for so long, my friends call me Cliff

Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.

Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!