"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without"