Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.

There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.