Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

At first, I thought it was only your body I wanted. But something about you has made me greedy as hell. I want everything. Your love. Your mind. Your secrets. Your soul.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

Feel free to cover your eyes at anything that might upset you

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

I don't think people realize that what we eat and your stress levels impact the way that you look. Not just your body, but your face and your overall well-being.