Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.

Flowers wither away when put through harsh conditions. Humans, on the other hand, have a choice. A choice to wither away or blossom.

Nobody dies in Vain (1408 - Film).

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.