Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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.

Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man.

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

There need to be some absolutes in life.

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

My friends ask me for advice about guys, because I have so many brothers and I see what guys go through.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.