The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

All I need is you even though I don't know if I can have you.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

I think you see in people's eyes what they've been through. Anything in their lives shows up in their eyes.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about the clothes.