Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

Don't pay attention to negative peer and societal pressures. They can never add more success and happiness to your life

Look how ridiculous are Americans. They blame us for everything.

I always leave a relationship with a sense of hope.

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.

I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party.

Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.