The printed page was like wine to me.

“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”

“It is like this in a city-state; the demagogues thrive by throwing the state into discord.”

“Like will draw like.”

“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”

“I am a beau only in my books.”

"I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws—no messing around or twisting things like in politics, particularly those in my country."

"And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction."

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.

What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.