In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

Some of my favorite memories happened in the Boy Meets World classroom.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

I think looks do matter on television.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

Just drop your bucket where you are.

Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.