Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.