“Happiness comes the way the wind blows.”

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

We almost always forgive those we understand.

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.

For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?

And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

Self-confidence goes a long way and is very attractive to others.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.