No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

I tell people view the federal government as a source of entertainment. It's a lot easier.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.