Oh! how many times we die before death!

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

The logic of the heart is absurd

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.

People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.