We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

Be the reason of peace.

Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available.

The subway in New York is a great social experiment there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.