It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

The heart has a deeper intelligence than the mind ever will.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

He had a prince's looks but a pirate's eyes.

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.