It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Je ne laissa entrer que le plaisair, oui, j’ai cette capacité-là, moi, de filtrer ce qui m’arrive, de choisir, j’ai choisi de ne pas être triste.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes with living a “what if” life.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

I had a lovely time growing up.

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.