Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!

Respect is a one way street, it goes from bottom to top

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me

When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool.

Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.