To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.

Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes im not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

I did it to show the world that Jews have guts.

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor