Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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 look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.

It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.