Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving.

Until people learn to love others more than they love to hate others, not much will change in this world.

They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Before a baby is born, you have a baby shower, not a fetus shower.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.