When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

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!

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

Attraction is so much more than a pretty face. It’s about passion, attitude, kindness, & faith.

Book means fly in the sky, cross the desert, without wing without water.

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.