The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL