The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'