Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

No! Wait! I've got a better idea...""Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.""And your point is...""Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

Suffering often clarifies what really matters in life.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott.