If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.

When you’re gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

No one is free until we are all free.

In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.