A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

Barack Obama can't beat ISIS. He's a lousy president.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

No. He’s the personification of human fear. (Leta) Oh, goody. Just what I wanted to add to my dream. Should we invite him over for tea? (Aiden)

He who waits on God loses no time.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.