Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
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.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Effective action is always unjust.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
