I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

There are only two things in life, ' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.

It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.