"Realists do not fear the results of their study."

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"If there is no God, everything is permitted."

"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions."

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

"A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression."

"Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you."

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."

"At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts."

"The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God."

"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."

"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."

"A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals."

"She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age."

"We can probably put those concerns to rest,"

"But Cisco has not grown through acquisitions, ... They've grown despite their acquisitions. The primary growth, as we saw in the quarter, was clearly from routers, which is Cisco's historical product."

"There was some trucker guy and he said, 'How's the horses?' ... And I said, 'The horses are OK, but I'm about to run out of fuel.' So he let me siphon five gallons out of his truck. I don't know his name."

"I think they had some fun and played, but I don't know what you make of that. The conditions were tough and we've got some guys hurt. ... Both teams made enough mistakes to lose 10 times."

"I think the stocks are going to do better, because everyone is going to realize it is not a disaster, and maybe the worst is behind us,"

"It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it"

"It gives me the ability to be totally independent,"