Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.
My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money. " They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy. "