The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.