For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on... that is like a joke of awesomeness.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

I am ultimately comfortable with what I'm sampling.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!