Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

But Grandmère is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don’t want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn’t “feminine.

She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Live in rooms full of light.

The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

What's possible today isn't bound by what was possible yesterday, and is never a measure of what's possible tomorrow.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power.