Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it.

Now we’re guests in a faraway land nearly 40 years on. No trees, no cool breeze, no best friends. Only endless days spent in sending SMSs...

[My grandmother] is a typical white person.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.