Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week, In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.

May the Lord fight your battles for you.

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.