... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

You wouldn’t believethe sun had ever shone on this heart.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Perception is a powerful tool.

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

The only ground of God's love is his love.

Live as if your prayers are to be answered.