Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

I think the marketing needs work.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

I'm an amused observer. I don't bet or gamble; that's the worst thing.