That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

She had a face that had had lived a thousand stories and none with a happy ending.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

There's nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What's wrong is changing yourself for something you don't really care about just to get somewhere faster.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

This I believe: I believe there is no God.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.