It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

I learn, I earn.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.