too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
Everything can be borne except contempt.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.