It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

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.

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.