I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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.

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).

The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness