So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

If you cannot treat everyone with same respect as you give to your pastor, then you are a fake person.

True respect respects all men, it values all people.

We must respect everyone who lives on this earth, be he French or foreigner. We must treat him as a brother so long as he respects our freedom, our personality, and our dignity.

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

The Porcupine, whom one must Handle, gloved, May be respected, but is never Loved.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistake I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there. Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

Respect yourself, and others will respect you.