From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Be the flame, not the moth.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but borrows none.

To me, the harmonica is like a voice.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

Every man's entitled to hope.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during, the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.