A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.

Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.

He hates me more, " says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.