Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.

Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is?

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

If you don't discover God's dreams, you'll either waste your life running in wrong races and crossing wrong finish lines or, like many people, have no finish line at all.

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.