For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

Bloom like a flower with fragrance so others can enjoy you during the joyous springtime.

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.