In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.

Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette.

If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.