And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

There are only two things in life, ' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Let us make this world a house of love and peace. Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice. Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice. Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.

I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.