I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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 are born to make manifest the glory of God.

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past.

Wake up, sleeping beauty, " he whispered in her ear. "The sun is just about to crest the mountains.""Tell it to wait, " she mumbled.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.