The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Did you know your kinsmen before their birth that you should seek to know them after their death?

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat – or in film’s case ‘run on’ – manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

War loves to seek its victims in the young

When someone seeks to confirm his elect status by a direct, personal contact with someone famous, he runs the risk of being thrown out, like the woman who loved Kissinger.