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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.