"Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes"

“Greatest god below the sky.”

“Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.”

“Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.”

Source : Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.102, Wayne State University Press

“If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.”

“I don't consider myself as very talented. If I don't work, I'll be very bad.”

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“What is art but the denial of life?”