A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

Sometimes I have ice cream for lunch. Gelateria Sempione in Milan is the best in the world, hands down. The chocolate sorbetto is amazing.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.