Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

(…) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

People fear witches, and burn women.

One day" came. Because finally I understood.

Prepare yourself for the worst, and the best will always happen.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.