
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I want to live my life, not record it.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation .