Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

I don't compete with others, but compete with myself.