There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

The French have got taste.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don’t need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.