Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently, regardless of what it looks like to others.

Be careful whom you confine in.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

Do you believe in love after last sight?

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.