Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!

I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.

Touring definitely makes you appreciate home more, so when I can be home, I like to stay home.

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.