Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I drink to make other people interesting.

We can only reach the highest height, if we encourage each other.

My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.