“Men argue. Nature acts.”

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

I bizarrely think that this [Sin City] is the perfect date movie. If a guy took me on a date to see this movie, I would marry him, for sure. It’s bad-ass chicks and rad dudes, who are sexy, all over the place, and there’s so much cool action.