Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.

Success is seasonal.

We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.

Art does what reality cannot.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

I'd say I am partial to women.

America picks up 73 percent of the cost of NATO. We're paying to protect them. Wouldn't it be nice if people would pay, and we could do things properly? That's got to change.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.