A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

On Sundays, I lay low, sulk a lot, and try to get my head together for next week.

A thief believes everybody steals.

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'

Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is.

Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.