Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.

I kiss people with my soul. I don't kiss them with my mouth.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

The right to be respected is won by respecting others.

He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.