What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

if you don't play with relations and respect to love you may get hurt And spend life in pain but you will die in rest.

I'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy.

But when you kiss me there's a spark, and I can't remember I'm only food to be consumed like an apple and not loved like a woman.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

You always find the right quote, or the right thing to say to make me believe you love me.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're reshaped to the female body.