It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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.

Think like the great, speak like the great, act like the great, and you will become like the great.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.