Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.

The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.

To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

The policies being promoted are insane... If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most of the world disagrees with that.

All women are rebels.

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.