For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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.

I love reading.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

The eyes can often lie, not see what is essential. But the heart, never.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.

Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.