Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Reading brings us unknown friends

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me.

When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

Many strokes though with a little axe Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

You are what you love, not who loves you... a person who loves has always won, no matter whether or not the love is fulfilled.

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.