Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
The only true language in the world is a kiss.
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.