Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

A true friend accepts you as you are.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

One thing I'd do is get rid of carried interest.

What is important is to win.

My workout is my meditation.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.