Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.

Something you wore three months ago, maybe you don't wear it again. I am a great believer that if something looks very good on you, you can wear it again, and it's not the end of the world.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

We're going to fix [trade deals].You know, last year [2015] we lost almost $800 billion in trade deficits. We have trade deficit with other nations of almost $800 billion.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.