Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

Nothing makes you feel more like a man than holding and comforting a woman in your arms.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

Believe nothing, not even yourself.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.