Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

He told her over and over how beautiful she was but, to her, his beauty was beyond any words she would ever be able to speak.

¡Hundieron el Maine!” said Manuel to his wife Etervina, as he read the newspaper on February 16, 1898. “They sank the Maine!

He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I guess life is full of maybes.

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come out in new shapes and forms.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one