Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

A huge part of losing weight is believing you have the power to do it.

True Leadership is having multiple generations working together successfully and passionately to create significance.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa.

Cheer up! The worst effects of what we're doing won't be felt until after we're all dead

Are we prepared to leave our comfort zones to reach a better place?

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.