To contemplate is to look at shadows.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Labor is life; thought is light.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.