The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

What I cannot tough, remains a memory, I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

Montesquieu had the style of a genius Buffon the genius of style.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

That wouldn't be a first, now would it?" "Jean." "Jean Grey is dead, Agent." "Yeah, that'll last.

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.