Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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 makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.