Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Life is a race; desire the goal.

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

Life is about balance. Too much work and you'll lose your spirit. Too much leisure and your dreams fall away from you.

Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past.

Simple things make us Happy but we pursue the complicated. We get caught in a maze and Happiness remains a Distant Dream.

I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.