“The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.”

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

My ideas are my whores.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.

I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I’m not aiming for a knockout. I focus on doing my best. If the knockout comes, fine. If not, that’s okay.

You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

Maybe the lesson is not how best to chase the things we think will make us happy, but learning to be happy wherever we are instead.

I’m just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.