The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Going home helps the content.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I have the space and liberty to create.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.