Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Law is mind without reason.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Truth is what works.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Marriage is the death of hope.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.