I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.

An iron? Was he kidding? God

'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.

The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

My business is to prevent the future.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.