Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

I like marriage. I've been married three times.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Remington Tate, I swear to you—I swear—that when I’m able to get up from this stupid bed and run again, you’re always, always, going to be the one thing I’ll run straight to.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.