If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women

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Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Beware of advice-even this.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.