Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

A fire needs three things: a dry bed, fuel, and room to breathe.

The are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.