Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another.

Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You can run away to take control of your time right now.

A mad man is thinking because he is not thinking

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.

You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.