A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.

Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.