“Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.”

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

There are no mistakes.

If youth knew; if age could.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

We need a united front against Islamic State and Assad happens to be the decisive power that can fight them. But the situation is preposterous because we also have to respect the calls for change. I would be in favor of a dignified change.

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

I love my son. I love my kids, my family. Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea.

Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

At the end of the day, it’s hard to win against the NFL. It’s a billion-dollar business, it’s hard to win against it.

Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection

But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…

If the deployment of ground troops helps in the fight against Daesh, why is that World War III?