Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Daily reading of scriptures is essential for your spiritual growth.

Genius is independent of situation.

You are a living magnet with magnetic power emitting from your every thought.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.