Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four, " I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

If I was going to lie to you, I'd already be elected.

People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

Life is life, and kind is kind

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

My father was a man of few words.

By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.