Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Oh! how many times we die before death!

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

The logic of the heart is absurd

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

I am a runner. Not an actual runner, like with shoes and sweat. Instead, I specialize in leaving uncomfortable situations with alarming speed. Some people need closure, I need space.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

You need to just get started. If you never get started, you'll never be successful.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.