Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.

You know there is such a things as a door, " I whispered. "You should try it some time.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.