Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

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.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

Having respect for animals makes us better humans.

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

Mental confusion can be the product of divine discipline.

Good things could happen to not so bad people.

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.