The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

If something excites you, go for it.

Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.