“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”

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.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

It’s almost impossible to resist the caress of the tears on your face.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.

If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.