Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?

We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.