To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further, There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

I live in the first drop of ink that touches every blank page.

Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

I use a smoke alarm as a timer.

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.