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.

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

... 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.

What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.

The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.

Reruns are my favorite things on TV.

Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.