Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

Women love only those whom they do not know!

We almost always forgive those we understand.

What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity!

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved...

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something…

Trust me. You’re a constant riddle with an ever-changing solution." ~ FBI Special Agent Clive Poole to Maggie Mae Castro

It's tougher to look than to leap.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.