In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

I would love to do a television show in New York City.

I'm not really very ambitious.

You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I've ever met.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

I find words really hard.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.