In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

Happiness is the most tired word in any language.

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Turn your weakness into your richness.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence.

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

When you fall in love, you land on a cloud.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

It's not over until you win

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.