Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.

You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

Choosing between day and night. Edgar and Heathcliff.

I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!

We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong.

Doubts can produce positive side-effects - if you work toward resolving them.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.