If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

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.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the only permission you need for that is your own.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

A world in which people with learning difficulties have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure and more meaningful lives.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.