Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm.

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.