Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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.

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Lord gives even more grace, so you can endure the test of time.

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting