Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation

Quotes ain’t all that useful. Fact is, there’s more concise ways to express what you’re feelin’, like screams and moans.

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house.

People do what they do to each other and they feed on it.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

Let one thousand flowers bloom.