There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
I am terrified of being bored.
I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.