The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

To think is to say 'no.'

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.

Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

Class is material consumed.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.