A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.

England still will be here without you.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!