Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!

I'm an actor for hire, and I go do a job.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.