Youth should be a savings bank.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?

No matter what you got, the blues is there

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.