By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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.

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

It'd felt good to be part of an "us, " with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

We have nothing against Communism.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.