Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.