I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

You speak Arabic? Tell him my name is Infidel Redeemed by Christ.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times.

Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.