How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.

Faith is a spirit. It is an attitude. It is confidence in the heart.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.