True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Don’t give someone the credit for holding you back. Give yourself the power in continuing to move forward.

The ultimate purpose of psychology is to release from psychology.

It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.