A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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.

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.

To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.

You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—to any of you without your permission.

Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

Hillary Clinton's a fighter.

In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.

People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

So often you're asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it's nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren't as worth looking at.