One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.