Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

Success--something your friends will never forgive you.

Even the most beautiful legs end somewhere.

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

When we ask God to draw near, what we're really asking is for Him to make us aware of Him.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

I'm not a good collector.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.