Joseph Baretti

Who we are now is all that really matters.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

There’s no limit to the things you can do.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.