Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

I only need to survive on tea, bread and fruits. I can keep working.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!”Of course it is! It’s a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I’m going to save this dress at all costs.” - Sam to Clare

If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

Love comes in seemingly insignificant moments and if you’re not paying attention, you might miss them.

Hide in the light, not darkness.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.