When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

I am the most interesting book of all.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

The evidence of Jesus Christ is lives changed.