I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.
I know that you think you know what I said. But I'm not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what I meant.
I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
I love people. I love my family, my children ... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I love photos because they never change, even when the people in them do.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I never forgive but I always forget.
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators.
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
