"All the perfumes of Arabia will not..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.”

“This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.”

“'Tis not to make me jealousTo say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.”

“don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!”

“I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!”

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”

“Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”