Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.