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.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.