A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

When we see goodness in everything and everyone, we become good.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that, Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!

I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.

What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.