Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Love conquers everything even karma.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

Why couldn't I have just made it home without seeing them? I wasn't in the mood to play good freaking Samaritan to Beau and his trashy girlfriend.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

When you love something, it never goes away.

You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther either.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.