Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

What is to give light must endure burning.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.