Give up trying to make me give up

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.