Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.