Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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.

If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself?

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

I'm happy to start on one topic and end on another one entirely, as long as it's funny.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.