It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.

Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.

The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination.

Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

May you know the path of light.

Leaders respond & change

Twenty-five years ago I made my vow to love you and to live with you wherever you went, " she whispered. "Since you're bound to go, I'd best keep my promise.

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.