I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that, ' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

The better you putt, the bolder you play.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.