Why is such a bad thing to die?

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

Silence is an arguement hard to refute

True love opens the gates of time.

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.