Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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.

Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.

I’ve learnt that eyes don't change. No matter how old or beat up you get, your eyes stay the same.

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.

However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.