If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

An uncertain warrior is no warrior at all.

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."