Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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.

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

Truth is more important than modesty

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

Fake it until you make it.