A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life.

People want transparency in government.

If you can’t manage the future, you don’t have a future.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.