A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent.""I keep telling everyone that, " she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.

Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.

. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.