In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
Of all the animals that we have domesticated, the most important animal that we've domesticated has been us.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
Travel is still the most intense mode of learning.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
There is no civil nor religios law, that has broken, nor can break the bond of fraternity which nature has established between men.
Common Sense is very uncommon.
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Travel is the most intense mode of learning.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.