Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
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.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Courage is grace under pressure.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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.
