Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.