Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

It seems the more we know, the less we believe.

A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.

Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.