A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.

We become what we think. If you have a negative thinking, stop thinking.

Life is like a test. If you get love right, you get everything else right. If you get love wrong, you fail the test.

To be a part of the kingdom you need to desire it enough to search it out

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Do not be in a hurry, wait for the harvest.

She laughed, and the duke might actually have smiled, though one could never be certain.

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.