That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

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.

Dare to risk public criticism.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

That which costs little is less valued.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.