"The history of human opinion is scarcely..." - Quote by Voltaire

“I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.”

“Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.”

“Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.”

“On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.”

“Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.”

“Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.”

“Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.”

“The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.”

“What are man's truths ultimately?Merely his irrefutable errors.”