“Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.”

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.

Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

God uses our potential to unlock our purpose! Go out there today and maximize your potential and watch fulfillment in your heart start to grow.

Everybody’s at war with different things. I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.

Thank those who gave you courage and thank those who laughed at your broken dreams.

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

How beautiful it would be if the poor could occupy in our hearts the place they have in the heart of God!

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.