Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself

There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is.

I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.