To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.