A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that’s out of kings.

But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

I use the Internet for what it's for: to learn.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

Affirmations are so easy that some people think they are too simple to be effective.

My life revolves around my child's routine.