There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Be the flame, not the moth.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that matter).

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.