In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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.

I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.