As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

I believe I've come to understand something. Love isn't always big and dramatic. It's big, it's deep, but it's also quiet and calm.

We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

Nulle cre ature humaine ne peut commander a' l'amour. No human being can give orders to love.

Mystery is the essence of divinity