Freedom lies in being bold.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.