“In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!”

Mozart didn’t need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods.

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

I’m cute – and God I hate that. Because that’s not cool. I’m like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It’s the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I’m an everyday, normal girl.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

Even people you hate deserve opinions. And sometimes they’re going to have better ideas than yours. Keep an open mind to everyone.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

I hate how many people think “glass half-empty” when their glass is really four-fifths full. I’m grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.