Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in the sands of time, that you were among those who fulfilled their purpose

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Love is a spendthrift leaves its arithmetic at home is always 'in the red'.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.