"Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself."
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"That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be."
"Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us."
"How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live."
"I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics."
"The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country."
"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."
"The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it."
"Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong."
"Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun."
"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."
"The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain."
"A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated."
"The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities."
"Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most."
"Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me."
"Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change."
"Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite."
"And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me-my fantasy, my erudition, my literary gift...I am happy that I can gaze at myself, for any man is absorbing-yes, really absorbing! ... I am happy-yes, happy!"
"When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?"