Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.

I'm sure that everyone who goes into fashion always dreams of having a perfume, since it completes the brand and exposes it in a different way.

Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.