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.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

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

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

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

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

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

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

I am happy and I’m single.

No one wants to see curvy women.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

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

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.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

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

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

I always wanted to be loved.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

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

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.