History is the zoology of the human race.

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.

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.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Let the game be ventured!

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.