He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Šausmīgi daudz taisnību. Nojukt var, ja nav savējās.

As I studied the remians of book pages, scatered among the ashes, my heart sank.

But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.