Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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.

We always need a reason to live, and we pretend to have it.

If you love someone let them know, if you hate someone learn to love them.

I missed Eve so much I couldn't be a human anymore and feel the pain that humans feel. I had to be an animal again.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.