the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.

I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.