It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints

Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't good for you and knowing when it's time to walk away...

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why

The door to the invisible must be visible.

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.