Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

All publicity is good publicity.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions.

i know how it makes you feel...peaceful, permanent, unbroken

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.