Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

All publicity is good publicity.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man it is the Great Wall of China between them!

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

One slumber finds another.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.