Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

What is a man?What is a woman?Why are men and women attracted to each other?Why do they desire each other?Love...what is it?

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

I wasn’t raised with a specific religion. I wasn’t raised to judge people in any way.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.