“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”

“When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.”

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

“It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.”

“One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.”

“A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.”

“[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minu...”

“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to p...”

“A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.”