“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

Stay away from people you make you realize you’re hard to love.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

When you enjoy your own company, being alone is no longer lonely.

Successful people just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

I love to move around. I’m not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.