Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.