breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

Nobody knows exactly what he's capable of until he tries!

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.

I say, make the decision, and as soon as you make the decision, the rest of your life you just manage that decision on a daily basis.

I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.