You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

The people who control culture in China have no culture.

The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart.

The minute we look, we cease being afraid.