Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

To live consciously and courageously, to resonate with kindness and respect, to awaken the true spirit within others and to leave this world better than it was when i found it.

we are all half fool, half wise, there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.