We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

I guess it was what my friend Phoolendu at the yoga studio would call kismet. That's like fate, but much more dramatic.

There is but one art to omit.

When President [Barack] Obama announced that he was leaving Iraq, I mean, he was talking about dates and times and what we're going to do.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

Night was running ahead of itself.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

We can take her. Besides, he deserves someone who doesn't shop at Gap Kids. -Rose to Lissa on Mia and Aaron

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.