It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

What it is, it is.

I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

Sometimes, less is more.