It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

Do not despise little beginnings. It'll all make sense as you're staring at an opportunity that you realize the difficult moments merely prepared you for.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

If you want to change the world, help the women.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.