I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy.