Ah, Caderousse, ' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on, ' said Caderousse.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

In the beginning, I used to seek approval from others about my fashion choices. Now, I trust myself.

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

When there is no desire, all things are at peace

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

The future has taken root in the present.

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.

Actors don't have real value.