You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.

Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.

The higher one’s level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."