The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

Courage is being yourself in a world that almost seems to endorse conformity.

As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.