There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

Books are our best friends we say, so can we call 'Paragraphs' as our 'Just Friends'?

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1, 200, 1, 500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

I think it's great to change - change country, change anything.