Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

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.

Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?

We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?"

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

I truly love Australia; I miss Aussie kids and their attitude!