I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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 should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

They say I'm old news. Well who the new star? Cause if I'm goin anywhere it's probably too far.

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

I'm a politician. I believe that we can change any rule.

Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song