Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I am a writer....a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.