My specialty is detached malevolence.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
