All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.

Hunger is good discipline.

Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.