Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based as associations for utility or pleasure are on a fair exchange.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

For if there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.