Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

The gray has no chance against that smile. It vanishes in a wonderful haze of bright color.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.

Happiness is a moral obligation

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.