"Men often pass from love to ambition,..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.”

“The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.”

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”

“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”

“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

“All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.”

“I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.”