In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

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?

Once you know that you have a voice, ” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Donald Trump doesn't like to debate and knows in his heart of hearts he isn't great at it.

I want every business to compete and thrive.

I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

So few grown women like their lives.

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.