Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

It's nice to be able to let go of the reins sometimes and know that somebody you really trust is gonna pick them up as soon as you do.

Judo helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

My advice to young women who are looking to be successful; make sure you're passionate about whatever it is that you're doing. And make sure you're fulfilled by the opportunities within your job.