I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

All publicity is good publicity.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress, /And you shall sleep restful nights

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

Mistakes were made. Others were blamed.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do.

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.