Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Affectations can be dangerous.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.