“Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.”

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

I caught my wife in bed with my best friend the other day. I was crushed. They could have waited till I’d got out.

Go to bed. Whatever you’re staying up late for isn’t worth it.

Your morning smile leads me out of bed, waking me up to my best self.

Tasteless is a life without your courage, for courage is the salt to your bread. So dare, dare to stare that monster in the eye, that fear that fiddles under your bed.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: ‘I want to be the richest man in the world.’ I’ve come a long way from there.