"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."

"All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no."

"No cross no crown."