Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.