Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Our stories are what we have, ” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

The moment when kite becomes free, it will fall down!

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

I've done movies that nobody's seen, and that's no fun.

We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.