Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

To a heart transformed by love, it is a mandolin. Seagull

“To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.” The Cherry Orchard

“Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind