You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE