The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

That was probably the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me." "What? Almost falling in a ditch?""No, being carried by a girl.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

It seemed impossible to make an appealing show about bulimia. I mean, it's my story, and even I don't wanna watch that. Plus, everybody told me not to - I like a challenge.

There's very few people go the extra mile - so go the extra mile and give it all you've got.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.