One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.

'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

People are getting famous now for serving food out of a truck, or for, well, pork buns. I don't know if I'm really pleased to be a part of that. I'm somewhat terrified of what the future holds, especially in America.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.

I'm a big sports fan.

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.