That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

People suicide because of the board rules, they don't like it. So people suicide, they don't see any other out of this place!

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.