The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

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.

History is the zoology of the human race.

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.

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

Donald Trump didn't cause chaos. Chaos caused Trump.

For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.