Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.