If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

Patience is the courage of virtue.

La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

I Have No Illusion These Will Come Easy".

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.

I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.