Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Make peace with what is.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.