Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Those who walk the talk get the work.

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!

When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.