Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

To Partake In The Consequence of A Law Is To Violate It

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

No matter what, I find that surrendering is essential.

La musique avant toute chose.

I never wanted to be a pundit.