"What is tolerance? It is the consequence..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Learn to cultivate your own garden.”

“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.”

“One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.”

“The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.”

“I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.”

“Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.”

“Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

“The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”

“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.”