She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life with anybody. Shewas a beautiful and a glamorous diamond with an astronomical price tag, but to a crude reality she was still a stone, a living stone. Nothing else but a stone in an aesthetic sense.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Michel de Montaigne

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

Jodi Picoult

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Henry Miller

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George M. Adams

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Elbert Hubbard

He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

William Shakespeare

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Dorothy Parker

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Renata Adler

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Hector Elizondo