Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you need to use your strong point and strengthen your weak point

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.