Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Don't breathe to survive

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don’t have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else’s.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.