Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.

But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we, ” like football fans talking about the home team.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

I want people to think they can't die until they see me play.

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.