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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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

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.

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.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

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.

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

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?

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

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

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 have the space and liberty to create.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

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

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.