The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.