We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

To understand everything makes one very indulgent.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Speech happens to not be his language.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Absinthe, on a winter evening/Lights up in green the sooty soul.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Helping people doesnt have to be an unsound financial strategy.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.