Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm.

The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face dangers. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.