It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

I am rather inclined to silence.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

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

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.