As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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.

No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

You owe the world a load of wisdom to dispense. If you lay hands on the grace, make it happen. They world needs you!

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.