It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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?

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Words are loaded pistols.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

I have wondered about time all my life.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.