To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ...

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

When we cannot look around and explain anything we are the quantum world.

There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.

Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.