You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart.

What is delayed is not lost.

I must have true love or nothing.

Love exalts as much as glory does.

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love.

When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

Self-denial is the first quality of love

It is when we are completely fulfilled and want for nothing more that we are given everything.

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.