What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?

To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...

All of them. Fated to love in vain.

Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?

She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...

Like a brilliant shooting star, she had almost reached her zenith when her light was extinguished.

One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ...

The world judges the Christian by his life, not by his belief.

Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.