When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.