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

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Going home helps the content.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

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

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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.

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.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

It doesn’t make a difference what temperature a room is, it’s always room temperature.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

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.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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.

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

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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

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

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.