Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. Become open to new information that can refine, improve, and enhance your way of thinking. This will empower your way of living.

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.