I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

Americans need to worry about whether Donald Trump will be watching out for America's bottom line or his own bottom line.

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.