Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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.

There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.

God didn't tell us to suspend our minds he rather challenged us to come and reason, to use our reasoning faculties.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.