After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

A good book is an event in my life.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, " said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Set your peace freebefore your caged mind catchesyou again in another dream trapwhere you may loathe to be your own menace awaiting in hope of a war-less world !

If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt. Once we cross the deepest part of hurt, it doesn’t hurt anymore. . You become part of the eternal journey of love commences again

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

Somebody's got to do it [being Donald Trump]. It's different. It's difficult. There are a lot of wonderful things about it, but always being under scrutiny isn't one of them.

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Good music is wine turned to sound

Everybody feels like a freak in some way at some time in their life. Or feels on the outside. And everybody is worthy of love.

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.