To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.