All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.

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.

Went to bed with a dream.Woke up with a purpose.

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't.

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.