A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.