By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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 was too bleak to be alone, and so they could do nothing but cling to each other as broken beings, as human beings.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.