"If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength."

"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it."

"Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness."

"The best smell in the world is that man that you love."

"Love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."