Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

My God can do it! My God will do it! My God wants to do it! My God has done it!

One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger

No man is a hero to his valet.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

He that is angry at a feast is rude.

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.