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“It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1940s <br class="br">Source: The Real Problem Is in the Hearts of Men http://books.google.com/books?id=AIHgK-p6mhgC&q=%22It+is+easier+to+denature+plutonium+than+it+is+to+denature+the+evil+spirit+of+man%22&pg=PA385#v=onepage, The New York Times Magazine ( June 23, 1946 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60715F63E5C14738DDDAA0A94DE405B8688F1D3)

“They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863), III: “L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
Variant: Genius is nothing but youth recaptured.
Source: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?”

Roméo Dallaire (1946) Canadian politician

“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: The Powerbook

“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“yes is a pleasant country…
love is a deeper season
than reason”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXVIII
Source: Selected Poems

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Source: Emile or On Education

“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”

Agatha Christie book Hallowe'en Party

Source: Hallowe'en Party

“Let's begin with one principle: it is better to talk, than to shoot.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero

“Freedom is more precious than the gift that makes us lose it.”

Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Más preciosa es la libertad que la dádiva, porque se pierde.
Maxim 286
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

“4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.”

Jean Monnet (1888–1979) French political economist regarded by many as a chief architect of European unity

Jean Monnet 1888-1979

“Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

Book XXX, sec. 30
History of Rome