Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.

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.

Why trade definite for a maybe?

Earlier men craved for love from women, nowadays they ask everything except love!

The past is never dead. It's not even past

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.