A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?

Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.