Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.

We never stop loving, No matter what we say, because we say just empty words, to keep our hurt away.

Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her.

Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

There's no such thing as the very best. If you're doing your best, it's only because you haven't yet found a way to do better.

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Don't wear makeup all the time. When you wear makeup all the time it clogs your pores.