The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

The great growling engine of change - technology.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them