What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Your fortune teller cursed me. Foul spirits haunt every supermarket I go to. I can't show my face in Morrisons.

This isn’t a church social, Sweetheart. You aren’t going to be able to save me this time.

Followers can't give new ideas and never be a leader.

Private jets cost a lot of money.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again.

Money can't buy off the lightning.