A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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.

And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didn’t have a chance to grow.

A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can’t stay still.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.