Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.