Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

To Be is to live with God.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Miracles do happen in every human life.

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.