Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.

Everyone's got a different story.

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

I want to be a guy who can be relied upon.

I play a huge variety of roles

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.