An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.