Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.
You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.
Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes.