The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Those who win never give up

Be a song in someone's heart.

That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Mido has just been sent off and I can confirm he walks like an Egyptian

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.