If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe”
– John Muir

La vérité vaut bien qu’on passe quelques années sans la trouver.
Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.
-Renard

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
- Brigitte Bardot

A life without love is like a year without summer.  ~Swedish Proverb

La critique est aisée, mais l’art est difficile.
Criticism is easy, art is difficult.
-Destouches.

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that ? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
- Marie Curie

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere.
The moment is the only thing that counts.
-Jean Cocteau