This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs, mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

Sometimes, war can make a change.Sometimes, change can ignite a war.

All dreams are possible, if we work and wait for the manifest.

If you did not live to love, what have you live for?

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

...But until then, I'ma shine to the last sin, Resurrect through the birth of my son, and live again.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.