"Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got."

“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”

“Love is illegal - but not hate. That you can do anywhere, anytime, to anybody. But if you want a little warmth, a little tenderness, a shoulder to cry on, a smile to cuddle up with, you have to hide in dark corners, like a criminal.”

Source : "Fictional character: Moustache". "Irma la Douce", www.imdb.com. 1963.

“I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

“It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.”

“Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.”

Source : Herman Bavinck (2003). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena”, p.79, Baker Academic

“You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.”

“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”

“When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.”