To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

Tennis needs some different personalities and a lot more emotions.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things i can't change,the courage to change the things i can and the wisdom to make difference between them.

God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. Thy will be done is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity .