To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.''You are very considerate to explain it this way, ' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk

Grace is the power of God!

Winter is a time to pause, reflect and renew for the coming Spring.

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

Its always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.