Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

My mother was a teacher.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.