A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing - that'll change your emotion.

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.