We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.