Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.