Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light.

Powerful people have no regrets.

A life without integrity, faith, courage and a positive purpose, is an unnecessary gamble with no positive possibility.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

Stop blaming everybody and everything for what's going on. If you really believe that you deserve better, then you would have it.

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

I like to travel and connect.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.