Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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.

Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.

My life now could not be better.

It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.