there are no nationalities in heaven.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

Words express only the feelings we know already.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

... love always betrays its intentions.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

The night is just a part of the day

When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.