Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Find the Grace in the things you can’t change, and help somebody if you can.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.