Love is a great power, and such a strange power.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

People aren't born sad.We make them that way.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.