There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

The more you give, the more you will have the ability to give.

When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.