But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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.

Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!

Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.