When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

If you don't believe in yourself how will somebody else believe in you?

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.