It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

Only the insane is absolutely certain.

To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.

In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.