It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.