Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job

If I say, “I am weak, ” I ensure that I stay weak. If I say, “I cannot, ” “I’m not the type to, ” “I am not able, ” then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show.

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you're not prepared for that, it's going to be really terrible.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.