If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Oh! how many times we die before death!

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

The logic of the heart is absurd

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.