I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable.

Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.

Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

I think [Mike] Pence is going to represent [Donald] Trump extremely well.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.