Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

I love a warm bath at the end of a day.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Information is power. --Humfrey

Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.